 | John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 388 pages
...indeed, but presents a more beautiful view southward, including " All the fairy crowds Of islands, which together lie, As quietly, as spots of sky, Among the evening clouds." * Gaelic dubh^ black. t Gaelic, cailleach, an old woman, a nun. These islands are in number about thirty,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. * Magnolia grandiflora. The Youth of green Savannahs spake, And many an endless..." .Still wandering with an easy mind, " To build a houshold fire, and find" A Home in every glade, " What days and what sweet years ! Ah me ! " Our life... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 626 pages
...flowers, that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. And he of green Savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless...quietly as spots of sky, Among the evening clouds.' No wonder, then, that the love of nature and of nature's works .should, in after years, have haunted... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...flowers -j- that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...build a household fire, and find A home in every glade ! * Magnolia grandiflora. f The splendid appetrance of these scarlet flowers, which are scattered with... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...flowers -j- that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...a household fire, and find A home in every glade! * Magnolia grandifiora. f The splendid appearance of these scarlet flowers, which are scattered with... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the lulls on fire. •' The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...Still wandering with an easy mind To build a household tire, and find A home in every glade ! " ' What days and what sweet years ! Ah me! Our life were life... | |
 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...—Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To let the hills on fire. " The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...islands, that together lie • As quietly as spots of iky Among the evening clouds. " And then he said, ' How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 378 pages
...Of flowers f that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...build a household fire, and find A home in every glade ! * Magnolia grandiflora. | The splendid appearance of these scarlet flowers, which are scattered with... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. * * * ' What days and what sweet years ! Ah me ! Oar life were life indeed, with thce So pass'd in... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :"— " The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. * * * ' What days and what sweet years ! Ah me ! Our life were life indeed, with thee So pass'd in... | |
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The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. 
